The pier took two months and $320m to build, lasted 12 days, and delivered less than 60 trucks' worth of food (most of which was stolen after it reached Gaza) before it broke and had to be towed away for repairs. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Though NT News also does great human interest stories and mysteries. My favorite being: 'Why I Stuck a Cracker Up My Clacker' - ntnews.com.au/news/northern-…

I don't have Instagram but this describes the content of my favorite Australian newspaper, the NT News.

inspiring stuff. makes me homesick.

really impressed w some of the work notus is doing

Nice way to close out an awesome yearlong fellowship on NYT Politics, Anjali Huynh!

Thanks for all your terrific work — and good luck!

We're very excited to have Teddy join the NYT team — been a longtime admirer of his reporting from afar and look forward to working together!

Vance, who is in contention to be Trump's VP and is about as far as possible from Haley on foreign policy, welcomes the Haley support for Trump and makes a unity pitch to her faction of the party.

We are devastated by this. Alice was a special soul—so many people came out tonight saying she’d helped them with something or sent encouraging texts. Always leading with her humanity. I’m so thankful for her encouragement and support over the years. We’ll miss her terribly.

Adam Moss is a genius and this book on how artists make their art — complete with many many receipts — is engrossing and is like nothing I've seen before. penguinrandomhouse.com/books/669522/t…

'Last year, more than 450 federal judges were targeted with threats, a roughly 150 percent increase from 2019... The U.S. Capitol Police investigated more than 8,000 threats to members of Congress last year, up more than 50 percent from 2018.' nytimes.com/2024/05/19/us/…

smart story

🧀Jim VandeHei profile by The Washington Post Post Style Kara Voght, behind the life lessons of Just the Good Stuff

>'As a media entrepreneur in the modern era, there actually isn't a parallel to him, because he's done it twice,' says Jonathan Swan, @Axios alumnus wapo.st/4auOkfU

she was a sweetheart. this is such horrible news.

“The reason Kevin got involved financially in the first place was that he could see that no one was going to help Hunter,” said the person. “Now, four and a half years later, there’s still no help — and now Kevin is completely tapped out. So just when Hunter is facing two

New: Hunter Biden's most important financial supporters has told associates he can no longer afford to fund Hunter's legal defense. There are concerns about how he will pay for expert witnesses at his upcoming gun trial.

politico.com/news/2024/05/1…

Trump responds, agrees to Biden's proposed debate dates, via Brooke Singman

Biden Offers to Debate Trump, With Terms, Shunning the Debate Commission, via ⁦Jonathan Swan⁩ ⁦Maggie Haberman⁩ nytimes.com/2024/05/15/us/…

The president suggests two debates, one this summer before early voting. While Trump is now open to the CPD, Biden team wants to negotiate directly with networks.